The History of Climate Science

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Standard Climate

The fact that carbon dioxide is a ‘greenhouse gas’ – a gas that prevents a certain amount of heat radiation escaping back to space and thus maintains a generally warm climate on Earth, goes back to an idea that was first conceived, though not specifically with respect to CO2, nearly 200 years ago. The story of how this important physical property was discovered, how its role in the geological past was evaluated and how we came to understand that its increased concentration, via fossil fuel burning, would adversely affect our future, covers about two centuries of enquiry, discovery, innovation and problem-solving.
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  1. stefanthedenier says:
    April 16, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    ”Predicting the climate / weather”; was the oldest profession – prostitution was the second oldest profession..
    2] regarding CO2 – there are two versions – one is that CO2 blocks the heat radiating out in space – second was used in the 70’s – which was: CO2 dimming effect will block the sunlight and we will have ice age by year 2000.

    3]THE TRUTH: CO2 during the day goes up 6-7km, where cooling is much more efficient and intercepts minuscule amount of sunlight => that much ”less” sunlight reaches the ground! b] because after sundown CO2 cools faster than O2&N2, creates condensation of WV and drops to the ground, to feed the trees and crops. The more CO2 in the air -> the more gets washed down by the rain into the soil and the sea. The ‘scare tactics” are used as ”protection money” nothing more. CO2 is a miracle molecule that spreads the essential carbon to the vegetation.

    4] heat doesn’t ”radiate” out in space!!! all heat is neutralized by the NEW ”cold vacuum” that penetrates trough the troposphere every 10 minute -and is neutralizing the heat between 3-10km altitude – although, sometime super-heated gases from volcanoes and nuclear explosions go up to 17km. CO2 causing ice ages and global warmings is the grandmother of all lies! here is the truth:: https://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/cooling-earth/

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    • Standard Climate says:
      May 16, 2015 at 1:11 am

      Recently I reposted this as well.

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      • stefanthedenier says:
        July 16, 2015 at 4:00 pm

        From the ORIGINAL CO2 MOLESTER, Prof. Hubert Lamb; who was promoting ”Big Ice Age for year 2000, because of CO2 DIMMING EFFECT:

        Here’s a list of articles from the 70’s predicting the next ice age along with a link to the website that listed them. Many of the same scientists that are predicting global warming predicted global cooling not too long ago.
        1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
        1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
        1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
        1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (The Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
        1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
        1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
        1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
        1970 – Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century (The Boston Globe, April 16, 1970)
        1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
        1970 – U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic (The New York Times, July 18, 1970)
        1970 – Dirt Will Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
        1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
        1971 – Pollution Might Lead To Another Ice Age (The Schenectady Gazette, March 22, 1971)
        1971 – Pollution May Bring Ice Age – Scientist Rites Risk (The Windsor Star, March 23, 1971)
        1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
        1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
        1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
        1971 – Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight (The Day, November 1, 1971)
        1971 – Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)
        1972 – Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)
        1972 – Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)
        1972 – Ice Age Cometh For Dicey Times (The Sun, May 29, 1972)
        1972 – Ice Age Coming (Deseret News, September 8, 1972)
        1972 – There’s a new Ice Age coming! (The Windsor Star, September 9, 1972)
        1972 – Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)
        1972 – British Expert on Climate Change Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
        1972 – Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age (The Portsmouth Times, ‎September 11, 1972‎)
        1972 – New Ice Age Slipping Over North (The Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)
        1972 – Beginning of new ice age (The Canberra Times, September 12, 1972)
        1972 – Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972)
        1972 – Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, ‎September 12, 1972‎)
        1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
        1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
        1972 – Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
        1972 – Geologist at Case Traces Long Winters – Sees Ice Age in 20 Years (Youngstown Vindicator, December 13, 1972)
        1972 – Ice Age On Its Way, Scientist Says (Toledo Blade, December 13, 1972)
        1972 – Ice Age Predicted In About 200 Years (The Portsmouth Times, December 14, 1972)
        1973 – New Ice Age coming? (Popular Science, January 1973)
        1973 – The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)
        1973 – Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1973)
        1973 – ‘Man-made Ice Age’ Worries Scientists (The Free Lance-Star, June 22, 1973)
        1973 – Fear Of Man-made Ice Age (The Spartanburg Herald, June 28, 1973)
        1973 – Possibility Of Ice Age Worries The Scientists (The Argus-Press, November 12, 1973)
        1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
        1974 – Ominous Changes in the World’s Weather (PDF) (Fortune Magazine, February 1974)
        1974 – Atmospheric Dirt: Ice Age Coming?‎ (Pittsburgh Press, February 28, 1974)
        1974 – Support for theory of a cooling world (The Canberra Times, May 16, 1974)
        1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
        1974 – Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
        1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
        1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
        1974 – Imminent Arrival of the Ice (Radio Times, November 14, 1974)
        1974 – Making a BBC Science Special [The Weather Machine] (New Scientist, November 14, 1974)
        1974 – The Weather Machine (BBC, November 20, 1974)
        1974 – New ice age ‘could be in our lifetime’ (The Canberra Times, November 22, 1974)
        1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
        1974 – Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says (Beaver Country Times, ‎December 4, 1974‎)
        1974 – Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel (The Telegraph, ‎December 5, 1974‎)
        1974 – More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster (Daily Sentinel, ‎December 5, 1974‎)
        1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 5, 1974)
        1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
        1975 – Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
        1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
        1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
        1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
        1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
        1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
        1975 – There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead (Tri City Herald, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
        1975 – Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age? (The Robesonian, ‎March 3, 1975‎)
        1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
        1975 – The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
        1975 – Cooling trend may signal coming of another Ice Age (The Sun, May 16, 1975)
        1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
        1975 – Summer of A New Ice Age (The Age, June 5, 1975)
        1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
        1975 – Experts ponder another ice age (The Spokesman-Review, September 8, 1975)
        1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 11, 1975)
        1976 – Deadly Harvest [Film] (Starring: Kim Cattrall, Clint Walker, 1976)
        1976 – The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book] (Lowell Ponte, 1976)
        1976 – Ice Age Predicted (Reading Eagle, January 22, 1976)
        1976 – Ice Age Predicted In Century (Bangor Daily News, January 22, 1976)
        1976 – It’s Going To Get Chilly About 125 Years From Now (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 23, 1976)
        1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
        1977 – Blizzard – What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book] (George Stone, 1977)
        1977 – The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book] (The Impact Team, 1977)
        1977 – The Ice Age Cometh… (New York Magazine, January 31, 1977)
        1977 – The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
        1977 – Has The Ice Age Cometh Again? (Calgary Herald, February 1, 1977)
        1977 – Space Mirrors Proposed To Prevent Crop Freezes (Bangor Daily News, February 7, 1977)
        1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
        1978 – Ice! [Book] (Arnold Federbush, 1978)
        1978 – The New Ice Age [Book] (Henry Gilfond, 1978)
        1978 – Winter May Be Colder Than In Last Ice Age (Deseret News, January 2, 1978)
        1978 – Current Winters Seen Colder Than In Ice Age‎ (The Telegraph, January 3, 1978)
        1978 – Winter Temperatures Colder Than Last Ice Age (Eugene Register-Guard, Eugene Register-Guard, January 3, 1978)
        1978 – International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere (The New York Times, January 5, 1978)
        1978 – Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
        1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’ (Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
        1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
        1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, ‎January 17, 1978‎)
        1978 – Another Ice Age? (Kentucky New Era, February 12, 1978)
        1978 – Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, ‎February 13, 1978‎)
        1978 – The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
        1978 – An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)
        1979 – A Choice of Catastrophes – The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book] (Isaac Asimov, 1979)
        1979 – The Sixth Winter [Book] (John R. Gribbin, 1979)
        1979 – The New Ice Age Cometh (The Age, January 16, 1979)
        1979 – Ice Age Building Up (Daily Record, June 5, 1979)
        1979 – Large Glacial Buildup Could Mean Ice Age (Daily Chronicle, June 5, 1979)
        1979 – Ice Age On Its Way (Lewiston Morning Tribune, June 7, 1979)
        1979 – Get Ready to Freeze (Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)
        1979 – New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)
        * Note: A couple of the news stories are duplicates in different papers with slightly different titles, this is intentional to show that these types of stories were not isolated to a certain regional paper.
        http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html

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